Phillies' pitcher Kyle Kendrick was the target of an elaborate practical joke yesterday where his manager, GM, teammates and the press tricked him into believing he been traded to the Yomiuri Giants in Japan:

Ha, that's almost as funny as when the prosecutor said he was going to try me as a juvenile because of my boyish looks, but then the judge revealed it was just a joke. Oh, that was a riot. By the way, I expected there to be many more Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets in Charlie Manuel's office, didn't you? -KD